Gitflow: Should I squash commits when merging from a release branch into master?

Question

I am going to merge my release branch to master and I am wondering if I should squash the commits from develop into a single merge commit when merging into master.

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Answer 1

The master branch is used to maintain a record of releases, so each commit should represent a squashed set of changes from the development branches that made up the release build.

Squashing the commits makes it much easier to see what changes went into a release and to create hotfix branches from a release commit when necessary. Tag each squashed commit with the release version number.